(08-05-2018 02:27 PM)stever20 Wrote:  The Dodgers pen in the last 5 days has given up now 14 er in 15.2 innings. 8.04 ERA. It's a huge issue. For everyone that is active currently- only 2 guys have ERA's lower than 3 for the season- Jansen and Floro.

trust me, I've read some of the Dodgers fans comments. They are mad as hell the team didn't go out and really improve their bullpen. Said they fixed the wrong thing at the deadline. With what we're seeing, it's tough to argue.

Nobody here or anywhere else except the Dodgers FO says the Dodgers shouldn't have worked harder to fix the bullpen. I'm totally on board with that. But the idea that they didn't because of payroll is what you've been arguing, and what we've been disagreeing on, and of course has zero to do with fan comments. (, by the way.)

If it had been me in the FO, I'd have been more interested in giving up key prospects for pitching (starter and/or reliever) than Machado, and I've been saying that since Seager went down and the rumors started.

In the mean time, no amount of world-beating middle relief is going to help the Dodgers win when they score 1 run in 2 games. That was the (I thought obvious) point of my snark.